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AGM 2018: Year in Review AGM 2018: Year in Review Shaping Melbourne’s future MPavilion 2018 designed by Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós Credit John Gollings 3This documentCommittee was for printedMelbourne on recycled – AGM 2018:paper Year in Review Shaping Melbourne’s future ABOUT COMMITTEE FOR MELBOURNE Committee for Melbourne is an apolitical, not-for-profit, member-based organisation that brings together over 150 organisations from Greater Melbourne’s business, academic and community sectors which have a passion for shaping Melbourne as a leading global city in the world’s fastest-growing region, the Asia-Pacific. The Committee’s membership represents Melbourne’s premier business and community leaders. Together, we focus on four pillars to support Melbourne’s future growth and prosperity: Future Economy, Infrastructure, Urban Optimisation and Liveability. How members get involved Plan the future: Make a difference to Melbourne’s future with your knowledge and expertise. Shape policy: Inform the Committee’s advocacy with government, and inform the broader public debate. Connect and build your profile: Expand your network and enhance your profile with other Committee members, government, senior business leaders and influential Melburnians at our regular events and policy consultations. Increase your exposure, further enhance your profile and promote your work through our structured communications and advocacy program which includes media services. Learn and share: Deepen your knowledge and share your expertise with our regular, exclusive briefings from political and industry leaders. Build tomorrow’s leaders: Prepare your organisation’s talented emerging leaders to make contributions through our respected business and civic leadership program, Future Focus Group. Our purpose: Shaping a better future for Melbourne. Our ambition: Establish Committee for Melbourne as the pre-eminent trusted organisation engaging with leaders and leading organisations dedicated to creating a better Melbourne in an age of disruption. Our vision for Melbourne: A global city of choice for people and organisations, due to its distinct blend of prosperity, opportunity and liveability. @Committee4Melb committee-for-melbourne committeeformelbourne #melbourne40 Committee for Melbourne – AGM 2018: Year in Review 1 THANK YOU Appreciation and thanks to our members for their valuable, inspiring contributions and in-kind hosting throughout 2018. Foundation members AECOM GHD Plenary Group Allens Grant Thornton Australia Port of Melbourne Arcadis Grollo Group PwC Australia Arup Haileybury RMIT University AusNet Services Huawei Technologies (Aust) Skybus Australian Unity IFM Investors Swinburne University of Technology Bank of Melbourne Jacobs Telstra Bates Smart Keolis Downer (Yarra Trams) Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Bendigo & Adelaide Bank La Trobe University The Age Cbus Property Lendlease The Herald & Weekly Times City of Melbourne Melbourne Airport The University of Melbourne City of Port Phillip Melbourne Convention & Transurban Clemenger BBDO Melbourne Exhibition Centre Urbis Commonwealth Bank of Australia McKinsey & Company Vanguard Investments Cornwell Melbourne Water Victoria University Corrs Chambers Westgarth Metro Trains Melbourne Wesley College CSIRO Mirvac Victoria Deakin University Monash University EY National Australia Bank Escor Office of the Co-ordinator-General Corporate members Adshel Grimshaw Quickar Ashurst Hall & Wilcox Recoveries & Reconstruction (Aust) Aurecon HASSELL Racing Victoria Avalon Airport Herbert Smith Freehills Royal Automobile Club of Victoria BioMelbourne Network Hume City Council RPS Chadstone InfraPlan Russell Reynolds Associates Charter Keck Cramer Ipsos Australia ShineWing Australia City of Greater Dandenong JLL Sofitel Melbourne On Collins Citywide Service Solutions K&L Gates Sustainable Certification Darebin City Council KJA Transdev Deloitte LaunchVic Transport for Victoria Development Victoria Lyons Uber East End Theatre District Melbourne & Olympic Parks Victorian Health Promotion e-Centric Innovations Minter Ellison Foundation Fed Square MLC Life Insurance Victorian Planning Authority Fisher Leadership Nous Group VicSuper Fitzroys Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Yarra Valley Water Gilbert + Tobin Public Transport Victoria (PTV) Woods Bagot GoGet Queen Victoria Market 2 Committee for Melbourne – AGM 2018: Year in Review Shaping Melbourne’s future Not-for-profit members Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Health Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Australian Centre for the Melbourne Recital Centre Royal Flying Doctor Service Moving Image Melbourne Theatre Company Spolib Digital Destination Melbourne Methodist Ladies’ College State Trustees Australia Foundation Guide Dogs Victoria National Gallery of Victoria The Australian Ballet Good Cycles St Michael’s on Collins The Big Issue Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation NORTH Link The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Melbourne City Mission Open House Melbourne Victorian Opera Melbourne Girls Grammar Outdoor Media Association Youth Projects Diplomatic British Consulate General, Melbourne Department of Foreign Affairs & Consulate of the Kingdom of Consulate General of the Republic Trade, Melbourne the Netherlands of Chile (VIC) Consulate of the Federal Republic Consulate General of the Republic Consulate General of the People’s of Germany (VIC) of Indonesia (VIC) Republic of China (VIC) Consulate General of India (VIC) Consulate General of Japan Royal Danish Consulate General Consulate General of Italy Consulate General of Spain U.S. Consulate General Life members David Beanland Gary Morgan Roger Richmond-Smith John Elliott Hugh Morgan AC Jack Smorgon AO Tom Fricke Bill Moyle Bruce Teele Janine Kirk AM George Pappas AO Pamela Warrender OAM David Miles Roger Poole Committee for Melbourne – AGM 2018: Year in Review 3 CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR & CEO 5 OUR PEOPLE 6 POLICY PLATFORMS 7 POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS 8 MELBOURNE 4.0 TASKFORCE 9 ONGOING TASKFORCES 11 MELBOURNE BEYOND 5 MILLION, REVISITED 17 FLAGSHIP 2018 EVENTS 18 COMMITTEE COMMUNIQUE 22 LEADING THINKER SERIES 23 MEET THE MINISTER SERIES 27 OPEN MIND FORUM SERIES 30 MELBOURNE 4.0 EVENTS 34 PRESENTING PARTNERSHIPS 42 EXTERNAL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 43 FUTURE FOCUS GROUP 44 HOW WE CONNECT 46 RAISING OUR PROFILE 48 4 Committee for Melbourne – AGM 2018: Year in Review Shaping Melbourne’s future MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR & CEO Committee for Melbourne has had another eventful year, engaging with our growing membership to inform the debate on our city’s development. This year, Melbourne’s population hit 5 million, well ahead of predictions. This year, we also lost our ‘World’s Most Liveable City’ mantle. We need a concerted, integrated approach to how we plan, manage and fund our city’s growth so Melbourne can continue to deliver prosperity and liveability for all. When we launched the Melbourne 4.0 taskforce in September 2016, we wanted to alert Melbourne to We have called for a ‘One Melbourne’ paradigm the massive impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to guide our future, having revisited our 2010 on our economy and way of life. blockbuster report ‘Melbourne Beyond 5 Million’. This report drew attention to the challenges that We were one of the first peak bodies to create a Melbourne’s accelerated growth presented for our public conversation on this existential question. city’s liveability and equity. One of the key technologies underpinning change is The concerns mooted then by the Committee are Artificial Intelligence (AI). In March, we launched the now widely voiced by the community with a sense Victorian All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial that we are not keeping pace with our growth. Our Intelligence, only the second jurisdiction in the world ‘Melbourne Beyond 5 Million revisited’ paper lists a to do so. We are delighted to be working with the series of integrated transport, energy and liveable Parliament, led by Minister Dalidakis and Shadow density measures to safeguard our future. Minister Southwick, to prepare Melbourne for the transformative nature of AI. In an election year, the Committee for Melbourne’s role as a trusted, non-partisan conveyor of messages We want to emphasise the very positive applications from our broad membership takes on even greater of AI in transport, health and the new economy significance. while understanding how we manage the potential challenges to employment and privacy. We surveyed our membership and asked them to rank their highest priorities to guide Committee These are just some of the ways we are shaping a advocacy in the lead up to the Victorian election. better future for Melbourne. Almost unanimous was a vote for an integrated transport system and an efficient mass transit link to Thank you to our Board and Secretariat for their Melbourne airport. We are pleased to report progress support and hard work over the past year. on both fronts. We would especially like to thank our members. Our The Committee’s five guiding principles for an success in delivering our ambitious agenda to shape airport link issued by our Airport Link Taskforce were Melbourne’s future is entirely dependent on our reflected in the State and Federal governments members’ ideas, contributions and energy. opting for the Sunshine route. We have pushed for Our success and Melbourne’s success will always be this major piece of infrastructure since 2010 and will thanks to your support and collaboration. continue to press for earliest possible delivery. With warm regards We held a range of transport forums with Members of Parliament
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